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Oct. 22, 2025 - Sean Hannity Show
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Trump The Builder - October 21st, Hour 1
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I mean, this past weekend, the No Kings protests around the country, we're going to get back into that.
I mean, people, the horror of the left, the insanity of the left.
And this is what I was telling Stephen A. Smith, and I discussed it yesterday.
I said, he goes, well, the crowds are big.
Republicans can lose the midterms.
I'm like, of course they can lose the midterms.
Anybody can lose an election.
Now, you never take any vote for granted.
However, if you're looking for to, if you're looking to persuade people to your point of view, what we saw on display this weekend is not going to convince people that you're the party that they want to gravitate towards, just the opposite.
And with the emergence of Comrade Kami Marx's Mamdani as the likely next mayor of New York City, and I saw the New York Post, and we'll get into this with Miranda Devine as a big editorial that Curtis should get out.
Curtis is not getting out.
I've known Curtis for four decades.
He's not getting out, period, end of sentence.
It's not happening.
And Andrew Cuomo has run a horrible campaign.
And even in polls head to head, he's not even close to Mamdani.
He's down by four or five.
To me, unfortunately for New York City, this is a fait accompli.
I hope I'm wrong.
I hope voters surprise everybody.
You have to believe that.
It may be the last chance for New Jersey.
I'm telling people in New Jersey, this is it.
If you want to go the way of New York, if you want to go the way of Illinois and California, then you go right ahead.
Don't elect Jack Chitterelli because this is your chance to fix your state and get back on the right track and maybe your last opportunity.
I'd hate to see the Commonwealth of Virginia go backwards.
And I think Winsome Sears would be a great governor.
I mean, you have two very flawed candidates, one running for governor, you know, Abigail Spanberger down in the Commonwealth of Virginia and Mikey Sherrill in New Jersey.
And just utter disasters on policy.
But it's going to be, you know, I love Mikey Sherrill.
Oh, why did you not walk with your class at the Naval Academy?
Well, no, I was not part of the cheating scandal, except that I wouldn't tell them everything about what I knew.
And then it evolved into, I told them everything I know.
I'm like, okay, can we get that straight?
The people in New Jersey, I think, you know, inquiring minds have a right to know.
You know, but before we get back to the No Kings madness that took place over the weekend, it's like now the latest outrage, you would think no president has ever remodeled the White House based on the reaction of the crazy radical left.
And before I get into the history of it, because there is a rich history of tons of presidents doing major remodeling work of the White House, you know, just listen, for example, to Colleen Jean-Pierre, the White House ballroom project is corruption at its core.
But keep in mind as you listen to this, that there's not one taxpayer dollar being spent on this project.
Donald Trump and his donors are paying for all of it, not a penny of your money that's going to be spent on this project to beautify the White House.
So the People's House is basically being sold to the highest bidder.
It is corruption at its core.
And I heard someone say this when I was backstage.
It could not be.
There's no greater metaphor right now than what's happening right now in this country than watching Donald Trump take a wrecking ball to the White House.
Yeah.
It's too obvious.
It's like you couldn't make that up.
Then you got Liberal Joe slamming Trump's disgusting demolition of the East Wing of the White House.
Listen.
Donald Trump, who promised that he was not going to take a wrecking ball to the existing structure, has taking a wrecking ball to existing structures.
I got to say, it really is.
It is.
It is horrible.
It's hard to watch that.
And it's hard to believe that any president could destroy the White House and take a wrecking ball to an existing structure so historic.
That is what's happening.
It'd be one thing if you were building on or you were doing things inside, but to take literally a wrecking ball to the White House.
It's grotesque.
It's just grotesque.
I can't.
I got the.
I'm going to make this after the Rose Garden.
It's terrible.
I guess the patio that they have put in, which you could argue.
All right, that's enough inference.
Did you see the state dinner when President Trump was in Great Britain and the king and queen through a state dinner and the beauty, yeah, certainly opulence, but there's a certain grandeur and history to state dinners like that and having a nice place to have one rather than throwing up a tent in the backyard of the White House and saying, oh, welcome to all you foreign leaders and dignitaries.
And it goes on.
I can play a lot more.
I don't have time.
You know, all right, let's go through a little history here.
President Theodore Roosevelt, 1902, built the West Wing, replacing expansive greenhouses constructed during the Jefferson administration and establishing the modern-day executive office with a classical-leaning design.
1909, seven years later, President William Howard Taft remodeled and expanded the garden, the West Wing, which included construction of the first Oval Office.
1913, Woodrow Wilson demolished the Colonial Garden, modernizing that with a rose garden.
1927, Calvin Coolidge oversaw renovation of the upper floors, including the attic of the White House.
1929, Herbert Hoover remodeled the West Wing and included construction on the second floor of the White House and work in the basement and remodeling the entire first floor after a fire in the Oval Office, etc.
And FDR overhauled the total overhaul of the West Wing, adding a reconstruction second floor and a larger basement.
And he put in a swimming pool and relocated the Oval Office to its current location.
And President Roosevelt constructed the East Wing.
Harry Truman, 1948, total reconstruction of the garden of the White House's interior and expanding its foundation and its footprint, preserving only exterior walls.
John Kennedy constructed the modern-day Rose Garden, for example.
1970, President Nixon converted the installed swimming pool.
I guess it was no, that was Gerald Ford installed an outdoor swimming pool.
In 1993, Bill Clinton undertook a restoration and the refurbishment of, I guess, tennis courts at the time of the executive mansion.
Barack Obama resurfaced the South Ground tennis court into a basketball court, added the White House kitchen garden on the South lawn.
There are pictures of all this.
I'll show you on TV.
And the left goes crazy because they can't get, this is like they have to wake up every day and they need their fix.
They're like drug addicts.
Their drug of choice is hating Donald Trump and all things Donald Trump, and they can't stop themselves.
Meanwhile, the government remains shut down.
Meanwhile, they're not doing their job.
By the way, John Fetterman said as the Schumer shutdown, he'd support the nuclear option to end this.
I'll get into more detail in a minute.
But if, you know, they're having a hard time understanding that Donald Trump won every swing state.
He won the popular vote, which is kind of hard for Republicans to do.
He got, if you look at, you know, a majority's, you want to landslide in the general election, earning majorities in 31 states.
The vast majority of this country is red, you know, multi-million vote margin.
And Trump is upholding the Constitution.
He's not asking for one taxpayer dollar for this reconstruction or adding a ballroom.
He just thinks it would be nice and grand for the country to put on its best face for other countries, whether you agree or disagree.
It doesn't matter.
You're not paying for it.
And the administration, you know, under Biden and Harry, what did they do?
You never saw these people.
We just find out they targeted Donald Trump and political adversaries at a level we've never seen before.
Weaponization, lawfare.
They attempted to remove Trump from the ballot before a single vote was cast.
You know, you want to talk about, you know, a King's No Kings protest?
Well, Kamala Harris was anointed to be her party's nominee without a primary.
Not a single vote given to her, not one.
So they hold these no-kings protests, but it's what they've been saying.
You know, every other sign, Trump is Hitler, Republicans are fascists, you know, F-Trump, F-Ice, Upside down American flags, Mexican flags, plenty of violent rhetoric.
A lot of people dressed up as animals, furries as they are referred to affectionately.
You have a teacher in Chicago shouting bang, bang, bang at a Charlie Kirk supporter while putting her hand to her neck.
You know, another one comparing Charlie Kirk to Hitler, proudly proclaiming that she was glad he got killed.
Let me play some of the highlights of these no-kings protesters.
Recently, with Charlie Kirk being assassinated, it's a piece of garbage.
Of course, we remain.
I am so tired of people saying, oh, but, you know, it's a terrible thing.
No, Hitler is dead.
I'm glad Hitler's dead.
You got to grab a gun.
We got to turn around the guns and this fascist system.
These ICE agents got to get shot and wiped out.
This day, the state machinery that's a fair display right there has to get wiped out.
People can't prove their points.
They can't.
Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, don't touch them.
No, no, don't touch them.
Don't touch them, don't touch them.
There ain't no king, ain't no king in the USA.
There was enough beating up.
There ain't no fool, and now I need to sin.
No king, no king, no king, no king.
We won't be home, no king.
We won't be home, no king.
This land is more than it.
We won't be home, no king.
Look at that shirt.
Look at that shirt.
Wow.
8647.
Explain it to me.
I like the colors.
Kill the son of the kill who?
Wow, this 47th president.
Really?
What's your name?
Dick Schaefer.
Wants to kill the president.
You know, one guy calling for ICE agents to get shot, you know, celebrating Charlie Kirk's assassination.
You know, never mind the dancing and performative stunts that they put in place.
Listen, there's a part of you that I know would get angry at all of this, rightly and justifiably.
That is a normal reaction to that type of incendiary, crazy language.
This is why we keep focusing on what the Democrats are now doing and how dangerous their rhetoric has now become.
You know, the question is, to what degree is their Hitler-Stalin, Mussolini, racist, fascist, Nazi language now having such an impact on the culture that it seems justifiable for their supporters to believe that they're doing good by standing up to a duly elected president,
celebrating assassination culture the way they have, and taking this to a different level every day.
I mean, this is nothing but their performative stunts, but words have consequences.
Where are they hearing this from?
And this to me is the big issue: is that so-called leadership, and there's really only leadership and name only, the real leadership, we know who they are.
The real leadership is the squad.
The real leadership is Grandpa Bernie.
The real leadership is Pocahontas.
The real leadership, AOC, Jasmine Crockett.
And they are the ones, and Schumer and Hakeem Jeffries are scared to death of them.
And look at the, if you will, chutzpah of a guy like, you know, Zoron Kami, Marx's Mamdani, you know, out there with this radical imam with all of these, you know, insane statements that he's made over the year and the support of the blind sheikh who was convicted of the 93 World Trade Center bombing and embraced by and then posted by Mamdani himself.
And this is now a radicalized party that has lost touch with the American people.
In the end, I think that this is ultimately informative for the American people to see it and their complicit allies in the media mob celebrate it.
And they too, in their own way, encourage it.
And there's nothing that Donald Trump could do.
If he announced right now, we have a cure for cancer, they wouldn't celebrate it.
Maybe a new listener to the show today.
Oh, my gosh, you're talking about sharp shooting Sean Hannity out of town.
Oh, my God.
If we have people listening to the show and they're that sensitive, turn the dial.
There's a liberal station waiting for you.
Okay.
We don't tell people that listen to the show to tune the dial.
I only tell liberals.
No, only liberals.
No, I want liberals to listen.
I want them to listen.
We put liberals at the top of the call list all the time.
If you find a liberal, Katie, I'll put him on right now.
You know, liberals call in.
We don't mind liberals.
Anyway, Senator Fetterman says he will back the Republicans if they use the nuclear option to end this government shutdown.
He said he would support Republicans using the so-called nuclear option.
I mean, he's the only one that has an understanding of the Middle East, understands what has happened to Israel.
You know, hundreds of thousands of rockets fired into their country.
It's the size of New Jersey, you know, culminating in what happened on October the 7th and the threat from Iran and ballistic missiles surrounded by enemies, Hamas in the south and Hezbollah in the north.
I mean, they've had it really, really tough in Israel.
Very, very tough.
And by the way, this peace process not going particularly well.
And, you know, the ceasefire only days old and Hamas is now making it clear they have no intention of disarming, giving up their power, and they're assassinating the Palestinian people.
By the way, where are all those liberals saying free Palestine?
What about the people that are being executed on the streets in Gaza as we currently speak?
Now, the president sent out a warning again yesterday.
He said, Hamas must be good or they're going to be eradicated.
And I know there are ongoing negotiations with JD and Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner.
I don't know the ins and outs of it, but at the end of the day, phase two of this peace process has been violated again and again by Hamas.
Now, the president is giving them time, as he always does, but to say obliterated, which remember, they first rejected the deal.
Trump said obliterated.
They came to the table.
All right, then we had the release of the hostages.
Now they are going rogue and trying to reestablish their power.
And, you know, Israel is rejecting all of Hamas's excuses, saying, all right, there's only so long we're going to be able to put up with this, and it will end one way or the other.
If the ceasefire holds, the anti-Israel haters will have a little rant about.
But, you know, we're all the, you know, pro-Palestinian people because now the killing is happening and it's at the hands of Hamas.
The problem is, you know, and Victor Davis Hansen has a good column about this.
Who or what will finally end Hamas?
Hamas was born, he writes, and exists to kill Jews and seek the destruction of Israel.
It's in their charter.
And to some extent, overthrow or subvert pro-Western Arab governments, period.
Now, again, if Trump doesn't take out the Iranian nuclear sites, none of this is possible because all of these countries in the region, Arab countries in the region, were scared to death of Iranian hegemony and a nuclear-armed Iran.
But, you know, if you, the only reason they have expressed a willingness to finally, after decades, get involved in a peace is because the threat of Iran has been eliminated by Donald Trump.
You know, but Hamas has two faces.
They pledge peace, you know, to mediators.
You know, we'll sign on to the peace agreement.
All right, well, they had to release the hostages or it was over.
They knew it.
Israel had to be convinced not to finish the job.
And I know there was a growing backlash against Israel and the prime minister.
I thought it was unfair because they lost the equivalent of 40,000 Americans in a day, their population size versus ours.
And if we were hit with hundreds of thousands of rockets, if we were surrounded by enemies firing at us all the time, if we had all these Americans murdered and taken hostage, what would you want your country to do?
And two years into it, you tell your country, oh, never mind, that's not going to fly.
And they're going to do what they have to do.
On the European front, President Trump said today that there are no plans for the president and Vladimir to meet in the immediate future, which means that Trump said no to the meeting with Putin, which was supposed to happen.
He announced it might happen in Hungary.
And this came after Russia's top diplomats signaled a wide chasm between Moscow and Washington on ending the war in Ukraine.
And Trump is saying, no, either you agree to this ceasefire, because what Putin does is as soon as they start talking peace, he just ratchets up his attacks and, you know, even in civilian areas in Ukraine, and he doesn't stop.
So, you know, I think what got his attention and his willingness to have that long discussion last week was when the president mentioned Tomahawk missiles.
Maybe it's going to take a delivery of Tomahawk missiles to NATO, and then NATO gets to distribute as they see appropriate before, and they're paying for them.
We're not paying for them.
Well, you know, this is the Trump doctrine at work, and he's expending a lot of political capital to get all of this done to make the world a safer place.
The killing is madness.
This is insane.
Putin has lost his mind.
And, you know, I'm not saying Zelensky is perfect by any stretch of the imagination.
However, he wants a ceasefire.
He said he's ready to join Putin and Trump in Hungary and have a negotiated settlement out of this thing.
So the killing stops.
So anyway, I know there's been some acrimony and reports of acrimony.
That's just basically par for the course in any negotiations like this.
So the Democrats, you know, they've had their no-kings rally and Schumer shows up and Corey Booker shows up and the congenital liar shows up and the government shutdown continues and people begin to suffer.
You know, even fake news CNN pointed out, their data analyst, that, you know, unlike 2018 and 19, Trump's approval rating took a major hit because of the shutdown.
Everybody seems to know that the Democrats wanting $1.5 trillion in monies, you know, in part to pay for health care for Biden-Harris.
Mayorka's illegals are not going to fly and to pay for NPR and PBS and refund them and pay for DEI projects around the globe.
Okay, that's a lot of money.
You know, we already are still running deficits.
We have to get to a point where, you know, there's two ways for the government to balance budgets.
One is you bring in more revenue.
I think the president has set this country up for that golden age he keeps talking about with $17 trillion in investments by energy dominance.
He made a great deal, by the way, today with Australia for rare earth minerals, which they are apparently ready to go immediately and the largest tax cuts in history.
Remember, Reagan doubled revenues by dropping the top marginal rates from 70 to 28 percent.
It's a myth that cutting taxes somehow adds to the deficit.
It does not.
Even Charlemagne the God said Democrats are losing the messaging battle on the shutdown.
Of course they're losing it.
Now, we are hitting a point where SNAP programs, which are food stamp programs, $100 billion we spend with the largest single food welfare project in the world, that may be at risk if this Schumer shutdown continues.
So we're going to have to watch that and watch that carefully.
Another news involving the president today, which I think is important, he had an appeals court rule.
I mean, this is all the lawfare.
What Democrats can't get done at the ballot box, what they can't get done legislatively, they just run to the courts.
And the president can now officially, thanks to the Ninth Circuit, I believe it was the Ninth Circuit, yeah, they ruled that Trump's National Guard deployment in Portland is legal.
He can send National Guard troops to Portland to protect the ICE facility there after 100-plus days of violent protesters.
And the appeals court ruled, giving the president's administration a key legal victory to crack down on these threats on ICE.
Meanwhile, that idiot in Illinois, J.B. Pritzker, is taking down barriers and fences that were put up for the safety of ICE facilities, which, by the way, I don't think that's going to hold either.
Steve Scalise, by the way, answered about the illegal alien Hamas terrorists.
He said, I told you this guy that they found, now I've been saying forever, Biden-Harris, Majorkas allowed known terrorists, murderers, rapists, other violent criminals, cartel members, gang members, and drug dealers in our country.
Well, Scalise led the Republicans in a state delegation, Louisiana, and Mike Johnson.
I asked him about it last night.
How did this Hamas terrorist that they believe is associated with October 7th reside in Lafayette, Louisiana?
Entered the country in the U.S. during the Biden administration in 2024.
This is why I've been telling you it's a matter of when, not if.
There are other terrorists in the country.
We know they're here.
We don't know where they are.
That is a big problem.
That is the legacy of Biden-Harris Mayorkas.
They already have enough blood on their hands.
If there's an attack on our homeland and it's one of these known terrorists that they let in, it'll be their responsibility.
And all the fight against Donald Trump trying to deport these people.
You have a Chicago area judge ruling ICE agents can be arrested at courthouses.
They can be arrested if they violate his orders and arrest illegal without a warrant.
Okay, well, the jurisdiction lies with the federal government.
This judge is an idiot.
It's called the supremacy clause.
We've gone over that again and again.
The Trump administration is on pace to shatter deportation records by the end of the first year, with over 500,000 illegal aliens deported since Trump took office.
They have over a million, I think about a million five that have voluntarily self-deported, which gives them the hope they get free airfare, a little money in their pocket, and the opportunity to apply to come into the country legally.
I can't emphasize how important this deal is because this is where the rub comes with China because China and President Qi was threatening to withhold rare earth minerals and up the anti-inter-trade conflict.
But the Australian prime minister and President Trump signed an 8.5 critical minerals deal to counter China's dominance in rare earths.
By the way, most people don't know what that is.
These are the minerals that are critical, especially for national security and national defense.
And the Australian prime minister, Anthony Albanese, you know, said they've been negotiating four or five months, and they have an $8.5 billion deal, quote, that we have ready to go.
In other words, they have the minerals that we need and to stop, you know, any Chinese threats, I think that's a good thing to be able to announce.
You know, Democrats claiming they're no kings rally.
This is what democracy looks like.
I heard that a lot.
Speakers call for ICE agents to be shot, marchers mocking Charlie Kirk's murder, and a protester wishing that Donald Trump is murdered.
Oh, okay.
Maybe I just don't understand what it means to see democracy in action.
One video shows a Trump-hating accountant shooting up a MA supporter's house.
I mean, this assassination cult continues.
38-year-old accountant arrested for allegedly opening fire on a MA supporter who had a Trump flag in his yard.
I mean, these blue cities have lost it.
Charlotte Teen arrested 111 times in two years, still walking free.
I mean, this is insane.
You know, now the guy that attacked that Doge worker, the feds now had to come in and announce new charges against the teen.
The guy was brutally beaten.
What is wrong with these people?
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